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Fiordland Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Fiordland, New Zealand
Kepler Track
This is a top pick! Lazy morning enjoying our breakfast, didn't leave backpackers until about 11am Drove to end of Kepler Track and commenced a 26km day walk to Rocky Point and back. The lakeside views from the M hut were breathtaking, but alas the sandflies kept us ...
Oh bugger
This is a top pick! Well, where do we start? The pelting rain? The pelting rain that turned to snow flakes? The little snow flakes that turned to pelting snow? The pelting snow that decided to settle on the most dangerous of mountain roads (that we happened to be driving ...
Pouring like hell, sounds like heaven
This is a top pick! ... landlady at Possum Lodge, the cute little lakeside campsite we checked into, was extremely helpful and recommended a smaller outfit called Fiordland Cruises, who were charging $130 for the day on a small boat taking only 14 passengers. We liked the sound ...
Nut Stops
This is a top pick! '...the track along the bank of the Clinton is undoubtedly entitled to take rank as one of the most romantic bush walks in New Zealand, or for the matter of that, in the wide world. At every step of the way fresh vistas of exceeding beauty open up ...
H2O Heaven
This is a top pick! ... that my waterproof jacket was going to do its job and once again, as is so easily done, I'd overlooked the ferocity of the New Zealand weather. I guess it's times like these that provide a realistic road test for your gear. Maybe mine had just seen its ...
Back at the Ranch
This is a top pick! ... - Sandfly Point, 18km We are completely knackered. Today, we have dragged our heavy feet across 18 kilometres of undulating native Fiordland bush. We've chugged slowly across the breadth of the Milford Sound in an old transporter boat with the sun ...
The Pyramids of New Zealand
This is a top pick! ... the sound exploring the peaks, waterfalls, sheer rocky cliffs and NZ's best nature including the Mirror Lakes. Coming to New Zealand and missing out on Milford Sound is like going to Egypt and not seeing the Pyramids. Milford Sound receives ...
Ata Whenua
This is a top pick! ... , it's a film about the Fiordlands. Here's how they describe it:- 'Ata Whenua - Shadowland brings you the Fiordland World Heritage Status Wilderness you would otherwise never see. Mysterious, evocative, exhilarating and utterly spectacular, filmed ...
The Pepper Tree Man
This is a top pick! ... friendly smile. We swapped the small talk and became acquainted. He's from Coventry and is thoroughly enjoying his holiday in New Zealand. He was totally, totally full of the place and couldn't believe I'd been here eighteen months. 'Jammie bugger' ...
Cruising the sounds
This is a top pick! From Queenstown it was on for 2 days exploring the Fiordland, one of New Zealand's most untouched areas. Day 1 was Milford Sound, and although it is actually only about 70km as the crow flies from Queenstown, there are some rather inconvenient ...
To Hell and Back
This is a top pick! ... equipment) and also that this was a rare opportunity under the current circumstances. I accepted. The Kepler Track is one of New Zealand's great walks and one of three located around the Fiordlands. 'This 67km, four-to five-day walk in Fiordland ...
Milford Sound. Getting there was half the fun
... car. It was then we decided to enquire into the possibility of hiring a camper van for the remained of our time in New Zealand. Once a traveller, always a traveller! Although we had really enjoyed the bus rides we had taken thus far in New Zealand (we ...
Prisoners on our own ship!!
... of the ship is scary and walking around is an effort. Suffice to say, we are enroute to Australia. We are still going up the New Zealand coast and the "locals" tell me the Tasman sea is far worse. If we should have to abandon ship, I'm grabbing my Cadbury ...
A Float in Doubtful Sound
... coach which took us over the Wilmot Pass finally arriving in Deep Cove marina on Doubtful Sound where we boarded the Fiordland Navigator. The boat held 70 guests in a combination of room configurations. We sprung for the private room....couldn't quite ...
Tramping
They say you want it to rain while in Fiordland National Park. Today we confirmed that theory. The rain started just before midnight and continued through the night until 3pm. Because we had a relitivly short hike ahead of us today we slept in and at ...
Campervan: Fox - Wonaka - Queenstown - Te Anua
... the walk there was a Gala apple tree so I stocked up on free fruit! After lunch we drove along New Zealand's highest road, highway 6 to Queenstown, at just over 1000m (higher than England's highest peak). Queenstown looked ...
Lord of the Rings Land!
... do tomorrow on the Hollyford Track. I also got bit on the bum by a sandfly today (Not Happy). Saturday 5th November 2005 Fiordland, Milford Sound We got up extra early this morning to get ready for a full day of walking on the Hollyford Track, on ...
Fiordland December 9-15
... , due to the difference in the boat, and our activities on the two sounds. Oh, forgot to mention that we saw a penguin - a fiordland crested penguin, or a tawaki, which the dive shop is named after. He was so cute hopping around on the rocks. After our ...
Hiking The Kepler Track
... , and one I haven’t really experienced in a meaningful way since high school. This has definitely been one of my favorite New Zealand experiences to date. I’ve got a couple days to spend back in Queenstown, then I’m flying back to ...
Te Anau -> Milford Sounds -> Queenstown
... to catch the 10am "Discover Milford Sounds" cruise. Our Discover Milford journey at Te Anau travel through the Fiordland National Park, a region rich with dense rainforest, lakes and waterfalls cascading from rugged mountain peaks. Pass through the ...
Easter Sunday on Milford Sound
... down and backwards sign on its surface. Very cool. Finally we arrived at a huge, rough looking one lane tunnel (evidently in New Zealand the road crews can't be bothered to build two lanes for tunnels or bridges - forcing one direction to stop and ...
easter in autumn
... than other hikers, but we ate a curry feast and had whiskey and cokes, while everybody else had tea and noodles, ha! Fiordland is famous for being ridiculously wet, as they get metres of precipitaion every year, but the weather was perfect and sunny all ...
Routeburn and Hollyford Tracks
... We ended up finding a side road that took us right up to a small river. We woke to very strong winds but still beautiful views. We are now in Queenstown (Starbucks) making plans for the rest of our time here in New Zealand. ...
Routeburn Trek
... large amounts of mist, wetting us just a bit, but making the hike more fun. Dehydrated food for dinner and a free bottle of New Zealand dessert wine from the ranger. Fast nourishing food for adventurers. Early night to rest up for a long day of tramping ...
Routeburn Trek
10:00am was the latest leave time I set and its 15 till and Patrick has been packing since 8:00am. A beautiful morning with good weather forecasted. It's hard to focus on the trail when my surroundings are so beautiful. A sub-alpine climb shows us our ...
The Doubtful Sound of Music
... swimming around as we ate our tasty packed lunch. The fiords on the West Coast were one of the big draws to New Zealand for us and this certainly didn't disappoint - they really have to be seen to be believed. The weather looked ...
